I am happy to announce that for this week, this course is now completely free. You need still to sign up for a Skillshare login, but you don’t need a Credit Card and you don’t need to sign up for the two month trial period.

The videos are the following. We deliberately kept them short. A huge benefit of this course is to discover your own best way of working whilst watching them. It is a “try things out while you watch” kind of scenario:

Introduction (01:46) – introducing you to the course, explaining what we will cover and who it is for.

JavaScript today (08:41) – JavaScript isn’t writing a few lines of code to make websites snazzier any longer. It became a huge platform for all kinds of development.

Uses for JavaScript (06:25) – a more detailed view on what JavaScript does these days. And how the different uses come with different best practices and tooling.

Finding JavaScript Zen (04:15) – how can you stay calm in this new JavaScript world where everything is “amazing”? How can you find out what makes sense to you and what is hype?

Evolved Development Environments (10:22) – all you need to write JavaScript is a text editor and all to run it a browser. But that’s also limiting you more than you think.

Benefits of Good Editors (12:34) – by using a good editor, people who know JavaScript can become much more effective. New users of JavaScript avoid making mistakes that aren’t helpful to their learning.

Version Control (09:15) – using version control means you write understandable code. And it has never been easier to use Git.

Debugging to Linting (06:01) – debugging has been the first thing to get right to make JavaScript a success. But why find out why something went wrong when you can avoid making the mistake?

Keeping Current in JavaScript (05:11) – JavaScript moves fast and it can be tricky to keep up with that is happening. It can also be a real time-sink to fall for things that sound amazing but have no life-span.

Finding the JavaScript Community (03:59) – it is great that you know how to write JavaScript. Becoming part of a community is a lot more rewarding though.

Asking for Help (05:47) – gone are the days of writing posts explaining what your coding problem is. By using interactive tools you can give and get help much faster.

Final Thoughts (01:11) – thanks for taking the course, how may we help you further?

I wrote this to make myself more content and happy in this demanding world, and I hope it helps you, too. Old-school developers will find things to try out and new developers should get a sensible way to enter the JavaScript world.

What’s Inside

As a member of the SchoolofWeb.org you will have access to:

* Web design, Web development and Web business resources including educational content, custom curriculum and training resources covering advanced techniques, and the most up-to-date best practices and methods
* Lesson plans for those that teach
* How-to guides to establish a Web professional program at your school or college
* Web professional directories
* Web professional job boards
* Web professional career guides

National Web Design Contest HTML and CSS Training Video

2018 Summer Class

WebProfessionals.org (aka the World Organization of Webmasters) has a 20+ year history of supporting practicing professionals and those that teach them. We also support aspiring web professionals. To that end, we are offering a summer class fro high school students and adult learners who would like to know more about creating web pages. This two week online course can be started any time from June 1, 2018, through late July, 2018. All assignments must be completed before August 10, 2018. Learners will have direct access to a teacher (who is available to answer questions and provide support and encouragement).